Brick & Mortar, or BxM, was recently opened in a fourth-story loft in the city’s Warehouse District, with access through an unmarked back-alley doorway. Membership costs $1,500 to start and then $300 a month. “It’s kind of like the Soho Houses, but not as hoity-toity,” one member said.

The Grove XXIII course in Hobe Sound, Fla., a new private club project for which basketball star Michael Jordan is the majority partner, will be designed by Bobby Weed Golf Design. In Swainton, N.J., the course at Sand Barrens Golf Club that was acquired by The Union League of Philadelphia and is being rebranded as the Union League National Golf Club will be renovated by Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design.

A press conference is scheduled for November 16 at which it is expected to be announced that the major tournament will return to the PGA-owned Louisville, Ky. property, which last hosted the Championship in 2014. This would be the first time Valhalla would host the tournament in May, after the PGA announced earlier this year that it would be moving the Championship from its traditional August dates, starting in 2019.

J.R. Smith of the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, who has held a charity event at Eagle Ridge GC in Lakewood, N.J. for 10 years, now wants to create a series of stops where pro basketball players would be paired with celebrities. “A lot of [NBA] players play golf, and Justin Timberlake, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Wahlberg—that’s all these Hollywood guys talk to me about when they see me—golf, golf, golf,” Smith says.

Starting with the 2015-16 season, the home of the National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Suns, now known as US Airways Center, will become Talking Stick Resort Arena, as part of a multi-year deal.

Steve Nash of the 1-5 Los Angeles Lakers, out for the year (but still earning $9.7 million) with a bad back, caught fast and furious social-media flak for posting footage of himself taking a swing at a driving range.